Top 8 European footballers with South-East Asian origin

His first name means ‘King’ in Bahasa Indonesia. The 27-year-old was born in Antwerp from Belgian mother and Indonesian father. At the age of 17, he moved to Italy and started his career with Piacenza before joining Serie A’s Cagliari in 2010. Radja, who currently plays for AS Roma, initially was on Indonesia national team radar during his young age before deciding to represent Belgium senior team at international level in 2009.

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An Indonesian who has a huge passion to follow South-East Asian football, Eric Noveanto currently writes about the Indonesian Super League and other regions for Goal Indonesia. Has also previously written for Goal Asia and BallBall.